Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

Hear the quietest sound from across the dome.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The iconic boulevard is the perfect place to catch sight of a bicycling skeleton, a levitating Satan, or a chef with his head stuck in a pizza.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

This Canadian monument to the man who invented the telephone allows visitors to get up close and personal with the artifacts of his life.

A mysterious spot where the laws of gravity seem not to apply.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

Rusty red sands line the shores of this Canadian Province.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.